How to stop touching your face

How to stop touching your face

“Olga finds a lovely way to keep her hands from touching her face. She put the present moment between them.” I didn’t really want to write about the COVID-19 virus. I thought that it would seem that I’m trying to make to connection between...
Don’t Fear the Reaper

Don’t Fear the Reaper

This week, over 70,000 people will be celebrating the life of Larry Harvey (pictured above), the founder of Burning Man, who died earlier this year. I would probably have been one of those people, if I weren’t living 8000 miles away. I attended Burning Man for 15...
The Arc of Light

The Arc of Light

You’ll have to excuse me. My mind is kind of blown right now. You might have read my earlier post about my travel here in Thailand, about staying put and not staying put. I thought that I had it all figured out, but no, the universe was just setting me up. To...
Update from Thailand

Update from Thailand

An update from Thailand.   When I started this 6-month adventure, my plan was to use my place here in Phuket as a base of operations while I travel around SE Asia, then return to LA in June. However, over the course of the last 3 months here, I’ve changed my...
I could imagine being unhappy. But I won’t.

I could imagine being unhappy. But I won’t.

Same goes for happy. I got a great massage from The Blind People this morning. The Blind People work and live in my neighborhood. I’m glad that they have a place to work, make some money and help people at the same time. Today, there were four other people...
“I’m living in Thailand now.”

“I’m living in Thailand now.”

After I decided to move out of where I was living and to travel Southeast Asia for six months, I realized that, for the first time in my life, I didn’t have a home in Los Angeles. It seems even weirder to say “Yeah, I’m living in Thailand now.”...